Great Alien / sci-fi films?

Does anyone know of any movies similar to the film ‘Contact’ (1997) starring Jodie Foster?
Just in case you don’t know the film, it’s a bout a woman who picks up a noise on an alien frequency, earth builds a big machine and she is supposedly blasted through space to meet the aliens…
Anyway, yeah, stuff like that, or a film that resembles what the game Mass Effect would be as a film.